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39 players are on the MLB RESERVE LIST (one slot is open), plus two players are on the 60-DAY IL and one player has been DESIGNATED FOR ASSIGNMENT (DFA)   

26 players on MLB RESERVE LIST are ACTIVE, and nine players are on OPTIONAL ASSIGNMENT to minors, three players are on the 15-DAY IL, and one player is on the 10-DAY IL

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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
* Luke Little
Hector Neris 
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
Hayden Wesneski 
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
* Matt Mervis
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 9 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 3
Kyle Hendricks, P 
* Drew Smyly, P 
* Justin Steele, P   

60-DAY IL: 2 
Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P

DFA: 1 
Garrett Cooper, 1B 
 




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2012 Cubs Draft Tracker Ticker - Day One

Submitted by Arizona Phil on

1st ROUND (6):
Albert Almora, CF
R/R, 6'2 180, 18 years old
Mater Academy - Hialeah Gardens, FL
COMMENT: Rated best HS defensive outfielder and 2nd best HS hitter in draft by Baseball America... Gold Glove quality defender right now... has average arm strength but with outstanding accuracy... is line-drive hitter with plus bat-speed... has just average speed for a centerfielder but is an above-average baserunner and base-stealer... was named tournament MVP while playing for Team USA 18 & Under squad at Pan American Games in Columbia last November... signed NLI with U. of Miami...
SIGNING BONUS POOL #6 SLOT VALUE: $3.25M

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1st ROUND - SUPPLEMENTAL (43):
Pierce Johnson, RHP
R/R, 6'3 180, 21 years old
Missouri State
COMMENT: College junior... Ranked 6th in NCAA D-1 in K-per-IP in 2012.... 4-6 with 2.53 ERA in 14 GS for the Bears in 2012, with 85 hits allowed and 28/119 BB/K in 99.2 IP... Throws 92-93 MPH fastball that has touched 96, a mid-80's cutter, and a hard-breaking curve... Has had several injuries in his career, including broken hand senior year in HS, forearm strain freshman year in college, dislocated knee-cap while pitching in Cape Cod League in 2011, and more forearm issues this past season...
SIGNING BONUS POOL #43 SLOT VALUE: $1.196M
NOTE: This was compensation pick received by Cubs for losing Type "B" MLB Article XX-B FA Aramis Ramirez

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1st ROUND - SUPPLEMENTAL (56):
Paul Blackburn, RHP
R/R, 6'2 180, 18 years old
Heritage HS - Brentwood, CA
COMMENT: Athletic pitcher with 90-92 MPH fastball that touches 94, curve, and change-up... Excellent control... Impressed scouts in Area Code Games (HS All-Star) in 2011... Signed NLI with Arizona State...
SIGNING BONUS POOL #56 SLOT VALUE: $911,700
NOTE: This was compensation pick received by Cubs for losing Type "B" MLB Article XX-B FA Carlos Pena

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Comments

Submitted by Rob G. on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 06:04 pm

Gold Glove quality defender right now Holy over-hype Batman! I'm sure he's great and all, but yeah...a bit much. especially matched with that has just average speed for a centerfielder unless he reads balls like Andruw Jones or Shoeless Joe Jackson. I know that's not directly from AZ Phil, who hasn't seem him play yet.

Submitted by The E-Man on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 06:05 pm

I am surprised. Someone splain it to me. This team has ZERO top of rotation pitching. Thete wasn't one "worthy" pitcher at 6??

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Submitted by Rob G. on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 06:07 pm

explanation #1, it's the MLB draft, rarely what you draft today will make an impact when you want it to...so you pick the best available player based on your evaluation. #2, the top of the rotation pitching in this draft was suspect. Appel, Gausman, Zimmer, Fried...no one thinks any of them are sure things. #3, allegedly a draft deep in HS pitchers, the Cubs are probably hoping to unearth a few Matt Moore's in the later rounds. little doubt they'll be taking a lot of pitching in subsequent rounds.

Submitted by Cubster on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 06:32 pm

Muskat tweet: Jason McLeod says Almora was top player on their board. "He fits the criteria of what we were looking for."

Submitted by Rob G. on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 06:14 pm

Nationals pick up Giolito with #16, $2.125M slot Appel's slot was $2.9M fwiw. Both are allegedly in the $5-7M range in terms of asking price. this should be fun, see how they handle the rest of their draft.

Submitted by Rob G. on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 06:33 pm

Brandon McCarthy is the best... @BMcCarthy32 Draft comps: do it by race, and if that doesn't work, well just do it anyway.

Submitted by The E-Man on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 06:07 pm

Cubs "grab" Jairo Asencio off waivers from Tribe. 3/44? Anyone post this previously? No doubt the bullpen will be tremendously upgraded. I am psyched!

Submitted by crunch on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 06:15 pm

maybe next year MLB Network will deinterlace all their video of prospects before they put it on tv...some of this is painful to watch (all that lines-all-over-the-video looking stuff).

Submitted by crunch on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 06:50 pm

larry dierker's hairpiece selected L.McCullers with the 41st pick for HOU. this is interesting given the savings on their #1 pick.

Submitted by Rob G. on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 06:53 pm

Cubs at #43 take Pierce Johnson, RHP Missouri St "plus fastball, plus curve" according to John Hart starter or reliever, some sort of minor arm injury.

Submitted by Cubster on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 06:12 pm

MLB network coverage on Pierce Johnson...announced by Fergie Jenkins: closest mlb comp: Drew Storen Two plus pitches, fastball, breaking ball J. Mayo: he came back at the end of the season to show his forearm strain wasn't a serious injury. Comp pick for Aramis Ramirez

Submitted by Rob G. on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 06:12 pm

Cubs at #56 take Paul Blackburn, RHP Heritage HS, Oakley, CA "committed to Arizona State, potential for 3-plus pitches"

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Submitted by Rob G. on Mon, 06/04/2012 - 06:14 pm

MLB draft ticker on Blackburn After a big performance at last summer's Area Code Games, Blackburn has continued pitching well this spring to keep him firmly on the prospect map. The NoCal high schooler has a good fastball that hits 92 mph consistently and will touch a tick or two higher on the radar gun at times. His two secondary offerings – a curve and a changeup – both have the chance to be very effective pitches. He's generally around the strike zone and thanks to his athleticism and sound delivery, his command should only improve with experience. The Arizona State recruit has some projectability, meaning his already pretty good stuff has room to get even better. That should get him off the board early enough to keep him from heading to Arizona.

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Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 06:50 am

Underwood is everything you'd want from a high school pitcher: athletic with arm strength, a chance to have three at least Major League-average pitches and outstanding mound presence.The Georgia product will sit in the low 90s with his fastball typically, but he can reach back for 95-96 mph occasionally. His secondary offerings aren't as good as the fastball, but both his curve and changeup have a chance. When he throws them right, his curve can have a very good 12-to-6 late break and his changeup can be very deceptive.He doesn't throw either consistently right now and he does have some issues with command at times. His poise, knowledge of the game and athleticsm say he'll continue to evolve as a pitcher, meaning he could start moving up charts this spring.

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Submitted by springs on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 06:59 pm

Round 5....Cubs draft 6 consecutive pitcher and first lefty, Anthony Prieto. From BA: "Prieto barely pitched in high school until his junior season and joined his first travel team last summer, when he reportedly reached the mid-90s at a tournament in Phoenix. Scouts haven't seen that kind of velocity out of the 5-foot-11, 180-pounder this season, when he missed the first six weeks with a forearm strain. Since returning, Prieto mostly has dealt fastballs at 88-90 mph. Though he's not physical, he generates his heat with an effortless delivery that allows him to throw strikes with three pitches. Both his changeup and curveball show promise. He has signed with Howard (Texas) JC. "

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 06:08 pm

4th round pick, Josh Conway, RHP Coastal Carolina In the smaller Big South Conference, Coastal Carolina has built a pretty good program that saw four players get drafted and sign in 2011. This year, it could have been Conway's turn before an elbow injury ended his season and required Tommy John surgery. Once a two-way player, Conway gave up hitting completely to focus on the mound in 2012 and it was paying off. Coastal Carolina's Friday starter, he’s a bit of an undersized right-hander, but one with a pretty good three-pitch mix. A good athlete on the mound, he throws a fastball, slider and changeup, all of which have the chance to be solid average offerings. Without truly overpowering stuff, he’ll have to continue to improve his command and keep hitters off-balance. Pre-injury, he had the chance to join teammate (and 2011 second-round pick) Anthony Meo as a fairly early Draft pick. Now a team will have to be willing to draft him and let him rehab under its watchful eye.

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Submitted by crunch on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 06:46 pm

this new draft format has proven itself to be a disaster right out of the gate. highschool kids have heavy leverage to pull 1 season at a community college or pulling a few years at a 4-year school now more than ever. guys like m.appell are/were supposed to go top-3 based on their actual value and how much loot it's going to take to sign them. agents may work hard to actually ruin this year's draft for the sake of getting rid of the framework. it wouldn't be the first time they put their interests ahead of the kid(s) for the sake of loot...not like the player doesn't want more loot, too.

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Submitted by George Altman on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 06:31 pm

Anytime Reinsdorff and Selig get a wild hair up their ass, shit like this happens. Someday, Jerry will finally get his hard salary cap in Basketball. Meanwhile, he continues to lead every effort in baseball to do the same thing. For over a decade he has refused to spend money in the Rule 4 draft either assuming or, more likely, hoping the majority of other owners would do the same. If your owner's team has deeper pockets, big market revenue, or just likes to spend money on amateur talent, isn't that what a 'free-market' economy is supposed to do? The fact that some baseball GM's are better at scouting and developing that talent than other organizations is whose fault? Anytime the 'powers that be' start legislating how you can/cannot spend your money, the hair on the back of my neck goes up.

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Submitted by crunch on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 06:54 pm

they should have given rounds 1-3 flat money rather than slotting everything so sharply after the first 3 picks, then again mid-1st round. there's not enough millions to get things done unless you're a top-3 team getting those extra millions of flexibility. ...when your #1 decides to go on a bargain hunt, though...kinda screws things up. astros picked a highschool kid who should have gone round 1 with their 2nd pick. they actually have some flexibility over where to throw loot thanks to how they played the draft.

Submitted by Rob G. on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 06:12 pm

If my source is accurate that Appel turned down $6 mm from Astros, #Stanford RHP is a huge egg in #Pirates basket. Bucs draft pool: $6.6 mm. Cubs draft pool is: $7,933,900 fwiw.

Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 06:17 pm

LeMahieu looks like the one recently traded (or Rule 5'ed) Cub who is getting significant playing time, starting the last five games for the Rockies at 2B, during which he is 6 for 17, all singles. Marwin Gonzalez has appeared in 36 games for Houston but mostly as a PH or late-inning sub. Colvin is slumping--not hard to picture. Flaherty is showing defensive versatility at 2B, SS, 3B and RF while he tries to point his BA in the direction of .200.

Recent comments

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Walker was a complimentary piece who was well past his prime. Edmonds, Holliday, Ozzie Smith and a few others were good trades. Notably, they have almost always been quiet in the free agent market. But the fundamental workings of the organization were always based primarily upon the constant output of a well oiled minor league organization. That organization has ground to a halt. And when did that hard stop start to happen? Right at the beginning of the Goldschmidt/Arenado era, perpetuated by the Contreras signing, followed by the rotation purchases during the last offseason. The timing is undeniable and, in my mind, not coincidental.

    Again, we are all saying that player development became deemphasized. I’m just linking it directly to the recent trades and involvement in the free agent market. I don’t see how the two concepts can be decoupled.

  • Charlie (view)

    The Cards also traded for both Jim Edmonds and Larry Walker. It's the developing part that has fallen off. Of course, it could also be the case that there are no more Matt Carpenters left to pull out of the hat. 

  • Childersb3 (view)

    Cubs sign 28 yr old RHRP Daniel Missaki. He was in MiLB from his 17yr old to 19yr old years and did pretty well.
    He's been in Mexico and Japan the last four years and has done well also.
    He's supposedly Japanese and Brazilian.
    Interesting sign. We obviously need to RP in the system
    Injuries are mounting everywhere!!

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Sure, they made generally short term trades for established players to enhance what they already had or traded for players early enough in their careers that they were essentially Cardinals from the start. What they never did was to try to use the more established players as foundational cornerstones.

    Essentially we’re saying the same thing. They have given up on player development to the point that even their prospects that make it to the bigs flop so that they have to do things like buy most of their rotation and hope for the best.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    I don’t buy that. They had been doing that for years.

    They did it with Matt Holliday. They did it with John Lackey. They did it with Mark Mulder. They did it with Jason Heyward, who had a great year for them. I’m sure there’s more but those come to mind immediately.

    I attribute it more to a breakdown in what they’re doing in terms of development than a culture thing.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    They won those trades and sacrificed their culture. That’s exactly their problem.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    The other part that’s kind of crazy is they made two very high profile trades, one for Goldschmidt and one for Arenado, and they very clearly won those trades. They just haven’t been able to develop players the last handful of years the way they usually do.

    I guess the moral there is it’s hard to stay on top of your game and be good at what you do in perpetuity.

  • TarzanJoeWallis (view)

    Marmol was extended at the beginning of the year. Two years I believe.

  • crunch (view)

    Jesse Rogers @JesseRogersESPN
    Craig Counsell doesn’t have a timetable for Cody Bellinger who technically has two cracked ribs on his right side. CT scan showed it today.

  • Dolorous Jon Lester (view)

    Thought it might have been David Peralta given the open 40 man spot and how PCA has played so far. 

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